Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-02-03

club you have sought relief This world has
no ba.san for wounded soul, no shelter for
bruised spirit The dove In the time OF the
deluge flew north and 1t was all water in
which were tossed the carcasses OF the dead
world, and the first solid thing the doves
feet touched was the window Of the ark. DO
the soul In trouble goes out Ia one direction
and finds nothing substantial to fest upon,
aud In Another direction; ahd every whittier,
but there is no rest for the dove save the ark.
"su1stantial comfort win not grow
All We can boast i Christ we know
But where as Lord sss planted grace,
Aud there Alone"
You lost parent; some one said II was In
the regular course OF nature that your father
should expire. Did that comfort yonl You
lost child; some body said that II that child
had lived 1t would have turned out badly Did
that comfort youi You lost your property;
they told you that riches were very uncertain.
You knew that before. You were sick they
explained to you that the difficulty was In the
secretions or In the sciatic nerve. Did that
earthly comfort! But when Christ comes 10
the soul and says: II took your estate be-
cause / wanted to give you more valuable
treasures Il made you sick Ia body that your soul
might be brought up 10 eternal health; took
your loved ones because have better and
DTlSUtcT pace LOT tueifl Own pTcscuCc,
then the wound heals, then the tears dry of
the face, then God has become the everlasting
portion of the soul. Oh, the air is full Of
black wings aud ravens beaks. They join
their wings Of darkness until they shut out
the light of the sun. They have fattened on
the carcasses of men. Their clangor is horri-
BILE to the ear. Trouble and disease and death
coming down on the wind. No wonder these
souls have come for shelter las doves to their
windows What does the pigeon In the coop
care for the hawk in the skyf
Safe In Christ, safe forever The mountains
may depart, and the hills be removed, but thy
loving kindness shall never fail
AgaIni These souls, like doves, fly home.
Most OF the winged denisens have no home;
how they are at the north and now at the
south, as the climate indicates, This year
nest in one tree, next year a nest in another
tree. The golden, oriole remains but three
months of the year In Germany, and is then gone
Tie linnet of Norway crosses the ocean to find
rest away from the winters blast. The heron,
the goldinch and the gross-beak are migrate
ry. The cranes call each other together sew
eral days before going, choose their leader,
arrange themselves In two lines, forming an
angle, and are gone. But the pigeons allu-
ded to In the text, summer and winter and al
ways have home in the dove-cot And SO
Christ is the home of those who conc TO him.
He is a warm home; they rest under the
Feathers Of the Almighty" Christ tells us
tDat cnlCkenS HUu not u WuTIiltT place
the wing Of the hen than we In Him. He Is a
safe home; our fortunes may go down ten de-
grees below zero, the SHOWS OF trouble may
fall, the winds of persecution may howl, the
jackals Of death may stalk forth-all is well,
for great peace have they who trust In God"
From this home we shall never be driven out.
The sheriff may sell us out OF our earthly
house, or the fires may burn II down, or the
winds carry it away, but that home shall al
ways be ours.
Men talk as though starting for God were
putting out on a trackless moor; or wander
ing through the sands Of great Sahara. No,
no; 1t is coming to the warmest and best OF
homes, "as doves to the windows"
Again: These souls to-day gathering for
membership, are like doves because they come
in focks. The buzzard, with dripping beak
futtering up from the carrion, Is alone. You
occasionally look up against the wintry sky
and see solitary bird wingng past But
hundreds do they fly. You hear the loud
whir of their wings as they pass. So to-day
we see a great flock coming into the Kingdom
1t is not straggler, trying to catch up with
his regiment; 1t is a solid phalanx, taking the
kingdom. 1t is not drop on your hand or
cheek that leaves you in doubt whether 1t
rains or not, but the rush of an unmistakable
shower. 1t Is not the raking up of
the gleanings, but the tossing up
Of the full sheayes into the NOW
''as doves to their windows" There are all
ages in this flock. Some of them are young,
and the very fist use they make of their
wings is to fly into the Kingdom. Some OF
them are old, and their wings have been torn
with shot and ruftled with the tempest, and they
had almost dropped into the sea. Some Of
them had been making very crooked course.
They dipped their wings in fountains of sin
they wandered near the gulf OF perdition; but
they saw their danger-they changed their
course. They have come at last las doves to
the windows
thank God that have lived to see this
day; to my dying hour l shall not cease to
praise Him for this manifestation, OF His
grace. Praise to Him, sun and moon and
stars Praise Him, church militant on earth !
Praise Him, church triumphant In heaven !
Let the church beneath raise up Its right hand
OF graduation and the church above reach
down its right hand of joy, and while the two
are clasped let the elders of the church put
to our lips the wine of earthly celebration,
and the cupbearers Of heaven bring up out Of
the vaults of eternity the Oldest wine, pre-
pared by Him who trod the wlne-press alone,
and so let two worlds at once keep jubilee
Who are these who come to us to day!
Many are young Until Robert Raikes came,
there was no organized efforts for saving the
young. We spend all our strength trying
to bend old trees, when D. little pressue would
have been sufficient for the sapllng. We let
men 20 down to the very bottomo OF sin before
we try to lift them up. 1t is a great deal
easier to keep train on the track than to get
checks the fiery stecd at the first jump for
when he gets full swing the swift hoofs
clicking fire from the pavement, and
the BIT between his teeth, his mo-
mentum is irresistible. 1t is
said that the young must be allowed to SOW
their 'wild oats" | have noticed that those
who SOW their wild oats seldom try to raise
any other Kind of a crOD.
/ went through the heaviest snow-storm
have ever known 10 see a dying girl. Her
cheek on the pillow was white as the snow on
the easement Her large, round eye had not
lost any ofits lustre. Loved ones stood around
the bed, trying to hold her back. Her mother
could not give her up; her father could not
give her up, and one nearer to her than either
father or mother, was frantic with grief.
said: Fanny, how do you feelp 90" she
says, 'happy, happy, Mr. Talmage; tell all the
young folks that religion will make them hap.
py.n As came out OF the room, louder than
all the sobs and wailings Of grief, heard the
clear, sweet, glad voice Of the dying girl:
Good hight; we shall meet again on the 9th
er side of the river" The next Sabbath We
buried her. We brought white flowers and
laid them on the coffin. There was In all thai
crowded church but one really happy and de
lighted face, and that was the face of Fanny
o! wish that today my Lord Jesus would
go through this audience and take all thest
flowers of youth and garland them on Hi
brow.
But while great flock this day comes to the
dove-cot Of mercy, the largest flock are going
| the other way. 1t is a very easy thing to tame
doves. Go out with handful of corn to feed
pigeons, and they will fly on your shoulder
| and your hands, so tame are they. God ha
| fed those who are before Inc with "the fines
of the wheat,n and yet you have fiowI
| from Him all your lives long. You have taker
| your clothes out of His wardrobe, and you
bread out of His hands. Gods Spirit will no
always strive. In the morning, after a sever
night, you have gone out and seen the bird
| dead on the snow; so, after a while, God
mercy will cease, and the earth will be covered
with the bodies OF those who persisted in tn
storm That storm is coming. 1t will shive
| the mast Of prlde--it will drive into the whit
reefs Of death every cargo Of sin. The cedar
| Of the mountain will split in the hurricane
| aud the islands shall be moved out of thei
| places, and the continents shall be rem
asunder, and the hemispheres shall whirl lik'
a top in the fury of that day. The mountain
| will be blasted and the beasts, In alright, b
pitched from the cliffs In an avalanche o
terror. The dead shall rush forth from thei
sepulchres to see what Is the matter, and al
those who despise God shall horribly perish.
Now do you suppose that ! can stand her
and know that that day is coming withou
telling you about III My last resting-plac
will probably be next yours. What II, whel
get up In the resurrection day, 1 should sc
| you rushing ut me across the lots of the Gene